A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

by Judith Flanders

Book Overview

From a New York Times bestselling historian, the "truly revelatory" ( Wall Street Journal ) story of how the alphabet ordered our world A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. Once we've learned our ABCs as children, few of us ever think of them again, but alphabetical order plays a material role in our adult lives. From school registers to electoral rolls, from dictionaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541601165
• ISBN13: 9781541601161
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"